The agents went on to laugh about how the GRU was going to “was going to cause chaos in the upcoming U.S. election.”

And cause chaos they did. Russian hackers from the GRU are believed to have been behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee servers, which obtained data that was filtered through Wikileaks and weaponized by the Trump campaign.

Hackers also successfully penetrated the personal emails of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, whose out-of-context emails were used as the basis of the outlandish “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory. Russian troll farms and botnets were then used to flood the networks of those in battleground states with fake news and misleading information.

President Trump and his campaign team now stand accused of coordinating with agents of the Russian Federation in order to tilt the election in his favor, offering platform policy changes and sanction relief in exchange. While Trump says there was no collusion, the evidence says otherwise.

We have the motive and the murder weapon – it now falls to Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller to get determine whether or not Trump and his cronies were accomplices in the murder of our electoral integrity.

Trump's response to a question at today's presser: "I can only speak for myself – and the Russians." Hmmm…he might want to rephrase that.

Colin Taylor is the managing editor of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.

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